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African Population Studies
Union for African Population Studies
ISSN: 0850-5780
Vol. 10, Num. 1, 1995
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African Population Studies/Etude de la Population Africaine, Vol. 10,
November/novembre
1995
Multi-Media Campaigns, Interpersonal Contacts
and Contraceptive Behaviour in Southwest Nigeria
Akinrinola Bankole & Alfred A. Adewuyi
Code Number: ep95004
Abstract
Recent evidence suggests that mass media may be an effective tool for motivating
people to adopt family planning. Little is known, however, about the process
by which this takes place. In this exploratory study, we argue that following
an exposure to mass media message(s) about family planning, interpersonal discussion
of such message(s) is an important intermediate stage in the process of deciding
to use or not to use contraception. If this is the case, interpersonal discussion
is expected to enhance or attenuate the effects of exposure to media messages
on contraceptive behaviour. Our results show that there is a significant positive
relationship between exposure to media messages and contraceptive use in Southwest
Nigeria. Furthermore, among women who are exposed to media messages, those
who discuss the messages with other people are more likely to use contraception
compared with those who did not discuss the messages.
Résumé
Les résultats des dernières recherches suggèrent que
les moyens de communication de masse peuvent s'avérer être un
outil efficace de motivation des populations à adopter la planification
familiale. Toutefois, il existe très peu de données sur le processus
par lequel s'opère une telle activité. Dans cette étude
exploratoire, notre propos consiste à soutenir que, par suite d'une
forte exposition à des messages portant sur la planification familiale
par le truchement des moyens de communication de masse, la discussion interpersonnelle
de ces messages-là constitue une étape intermédiaire importante
dans le processus de prise de décision quant à l'utilisation
ou non de la contraception. Si cela est vrai, la discussion interpersonnelle
devra soit renforcer, soit atténuer les effets de l'exposition aux messages
passés par les médias sur le comportement par rapport à la
contraception. Les résultats de nos recherches montrent qu'il existe
une relation positive de fond entre l'exposition aux messages véhiculés
par les médias et l'utilisation des moyens contraceptifs au Sud-ouest
du Nigéria. En outre, au nombre des femmes exposées aux messages
véhiculés par les médias, celles qui en discutent avec
d'autres sont plus enclines à utiliser les méthodes contraceptives
par opposition à celles qui n'ont pas discuté des messages en
question.
Introduction
In contrast to widespread thinking in the 1970s, the efficacy of mass media
for promoting family planning is increasingly widely accepted today. Recent
findings suggest that exposure to family planning messages on radio, television
and the print media is strongly associated with contraceptive behaviour (Piotrow
et al, 1990; Kincaid et al, 1992; Westoff and Rodríguez, 1993), although
certain issues (such as the problem of disentangling the direction of causality
between the two events) are yet to be conclusively resolved. One important
element of this relationship that requires attention, however, is the process
by which mass media messages lead to a decision to use or not to use (or to
continue or not to continue) contraception. Little is currently known about
what takes place between the time a woman or man is exposed to media message(s)
and the time she or he makes a decision about family planning.
Information seeking is believed to be the first important step an individual
takes in the process of decision-making following an exposure to family planning
messages in the mass media (Piotrow et al, 1994). She/he may want more information
on the appropriate method to use, how to obtain it, the risks involved or the
cost of obtaining the method. In anticipation of this step of information seeking,
effective mass media campaigns about family planning point the audience to
how and where further information could be obtained. In addition to seeking
information the individual may also want to seek the consent, opinion or advice
of her or his spouse, relative or friend before taking any action. On the other
hand, people who have been exposed to family planning messages may discuss
them with others just for their information. As the discussion takes place,
however, the contents as well as the objectives of the messages may be critically
evaluated.
Beyond examining the direct effects of exposure to mass media messages on
contraceptive behaviour, it is important to ask questions such as: How prevalent
is post-exposure interpersonal discussion of media messages? Does interpersonal
discussion of media messages have additional effects on contraceptive behaviour?
What is the outcome of the additional effects? These questions are important
for at least two reasons. First, a prevailing argument against the use of mass
media is that changes in behaviour more often follow interpersonal contacts
than mass media messages (see Bogue, 1962; Hyman and Sheatsley, 1974). But
mass media messages and interpersonal contacts have a synergistic effect. Second,
unlike the effect of mass media messages, which is not expected to be negative,
interpersonal contact may produce a negative impact (Bhatia et al., 1981).
For instance, whether or not a woman who develops an interest in adopting contraception
will carry through the desire may depend on the orientation of the individuals
contacted and the extent to which she values their opinions (Piotrow et al.,
1994).
In this article, we examine the relationship between exposure to three mass
media campaigns undertaken in Nigeria between 1989 and 1992 and the contraceptive
behaviour of women in the southwestern region of the country. We also investigate
the additional association between interpersonal discussion of the campaigns
and the contraceptive behaviour of those who were exposed to the campaigns.
Mass Media Campaign and Post-Exposure Discussion
How prevalent is interpersonal discussion of mass media messages about family
planning? Research findings suggest that a substantial proportion of women
who are exposed to mass media messages share them with other people, for a
variety of reasons. One of the main objectives of a multi-media campaign on
sexual responsibility and family planning in Latin America was to induce teenagers
to think about sexual responsibility and to start talking to others about it.
An evaluation study of the campaign's effects (Kincaid et al, 1988) showed
that half of the respondents talked to their female friends about the songs
in the campaign and 32 per cent talked to their male friends. About 50 per
cent talked to either of the parents while only 7 per cent talked to their
teachers about the songs. Another report of a similar campaign in the Philippines
indicated that 92 per cent of a sample of youths interviewed after the campaign
recalled the song "I Still Believe." Forty-four percent of those who recalled
the song said that they discussed it with friends or parents (Rimon et al.,
1994).
In Zimbabwe, a multi-media campaign consisting of a radio drama series, motivational
talks and pamphlets with family planning themes was intended to promote family
planning among men. A report of the campaign noted that 60 per cent of those
who were exposed to the radio soap opera talked to others about it. The respondents
identified their audience as consisting of mostly their male friends, followed
by male relatives and spouses (Piotrow, et al., 1994). Also in Nigeria, a mass
media campaign involving two songs and music videos was undertaken in 1989
to promote family planning and certain sources of obtaining family planning
services. An evaluation of the impact of the campaign after the broadcast among
men aged 15-35 in three cities indicated that 64 per cent of the respondents
recalled the songs and 34 per cent talked to someone about the songs.
Does interpersonal discussion influence behaviour? Interpersonal contacts
have long been identified as a potent means of changing behaviour (Katz and
Lazarsfeld, 1955). It is believed that people are more likely to change their
behaviour when they are encouraged to do so by other individuals they know,
like or respect. Thus, when individuals talk about mass media campaigns about
family planning with others, the response they receive may be important for
the decision they eventually make. This becomes very important given that the
majority of the people who constitute the audience in such discussions tend
to be spouses, relatives and friends. The literature suggests that interpersonal
contacts can reinforce or attenuate the positive effects of mass media messages.
Evidence from a focus group study among a group of women (Bankole, 1994) showed
that discussing with the husband following an exposure to a mass media campaign
about family planning can constitute either a bottleneck or an encouragement
to adopting family planning. The participants were asked to recall the campaigns
that they had watched or listened to, and to describe any action they took
as a result of being exposed to the campaigns. The following quotes illustrate
the point that messages can have both positive and negative effects on individual
recipients.
"I actually watched the family planning show with my husband and we discussed
the message. He insisted that he would never support my obtaining a family
planning method because once a woman does it she becomes promiscuous and uncontrollable." (p.20)
"When I heard the family planning message, I told my husband about it. He
told me to go to the hospital to inquire more about family planning. When I
went, they gaveme some information and recommended the pill that I am currently
using." (p.20)
The uncertainty about the direction of the effects of interpersonal communication
on contraceptive behaviour becomes more evident from the reports of a study
of peer pressure and contraceptive sterilization in Bangladesh. The study was
based on interviews with 275 women who were sterilized in 1978 and another
175 women who expressed interest in the procedure and registered for it but
failed to return to the clinic for the surgery (Bhatia et al., 1981). Of the
sterilized women who were interviewed, 81 per cent were reported to have consulted
with their female relatives about the procedure to seek their support and assurance.
They received overwhelming support from both the relatives (87 per cent) and
their husbands and mother-in-law (95 per cent). Another study in El Salvador
among women who were sterilized noted similarly that the majority of the women
received positive reaction from those who had earlier been sterilized and from
their husbands (Bertrand et al., 1986). That these women in both studies went
ahead to obtain the procedure cannot be dissociated from the social approval
they received.
The Bangladesh study reported, on the other hand, that of the women who failed
to return to the clinic for the procedure, 52 per cent said that they decided
against sterilization because their husbands opposed it. Another 13 per cent
cited objections from spouses, friends and relatives as the reason for their
action. Again, why these women changed their mind may not be independent of
the negative reactions they received from their relatives and friends. Rumour
and misinformation have been found to have negative impact on pill usage in
Egypt, and the most frequently reported sources of the rumour that pill causes
weakness are friends or neighbours followed by spouses and relatives (DeClerque
et al., 1986).
The Data
The data used for our study were obtained through a survey conducted in 1993
as a follow-up to the Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey (NDHS). The survey
was undertaken in three states - Lagos, Oyo, and Osun - with the objective
of re-interviewing the sub-sample of the women interviewed in the NDHS in those
states. Out of the 1221 married women aged 15-44 originally interviewed in
that survey in 1990, 770 women who were presumed to be part of the original
sample were successfully interviewed (Westoff et al., 1994). We analyzed only
the information collected in the 1993 interviews in this article. The data
consist of information on the characteristics and the reproductive histories
of the respondents as well as information on their exposure to family planning
campaigns in the mass media. The respondents were asked to recall whether or
not they have seen or listened to certain campaigns undertaken in the country
since 1989. Those who said that they have been exposed to at least one of them
were asked to recall whether or not they ever watched and/or discussed any
of them with other people.
The campaigns - "The Songs and Music Videos" (songs/music video), "Eni A Wi
Fun" (To Be Forewarned) and the "Public Service Announcements/National Family
Planning Logo" (PSA/logo) have been described in detail elsewhere by the Population
Communication Services of the Johns Hopkins University; only a brief description
of each of them is provided here.
The campaigns utilized the "enter-educate" approach to promote the ideal of
a small family size and to motivate the Nigerian people to adopt family planning.
The first consisted of two popular songs and music videos ("Choices" and "Wait
For Me") featuring two popular musicians - King Sunny Ade and Onyeka Onwenu.
The main objective of the project was to promote family planning, the Planned
Parenthood Federation of Nigeria clinics and government services. The campaign
was launched in August 1989 with the release of the two songs with the theme
of sexual responsibility. Extensive publicity and public relations activities
were undertaken by the musicians throughout the country and the songs were
simultaneously broadcast on the radio and television (Kincaid et al., 1992).
At least 75,000 albums and cassettes of the songs were reportedly sold following
the launching. The project was said to also have received massive free press
coverage both in the electronic and print media (JHU/PCS, 1990).
The second campaign consisted of a Yoruba drama video featuring a popular
Yoruba comedian (Moses Olaiya - "Baba Sala") and his group. The objective of
the drama video programme called "Eni A Wi Fun" (To Be Forewarned - TBF for
short) was to promote primary health care and family planning in the Yoruba-speaking
states of southwest Nigeria, particularly among the rural dwellers (JHU/PCS,
1990). The campaign was launched in December 1990 with the premiere screening
of the drama video at the Ibadan Cultural Centre, capital of Oyo State. About
2000 people were said to have attended the show. Since that time, the drama
was presented several times on the television and mobile cinema vans (for the
rural audience). The campaign also featured health workers who usually attended
the showing of the video to provide additional information, answer questions,
provide clarifications and direct people to local health and family planning
centres (JHU/PCS, 1993).
The last of the campaigns involved a nationwide broadcast of 14 Public Service
Announcements (PSAs) on the radio and television for a period of six months
(June - November, 1992). The PSAs were developed around five separate episodes
or events, each of which was intended to promote the small family size ideal
and family planning. The announcements were broadcast in English, Pidgin, Hausa,
Igbo and Yoruba languages, and each of them concluded with the promotion of
the National Family Planning Logo (Kiragu et al., 1993). The logo which shows
a couple holding a baby against a map of Nigeria was formally launched in September
1991. Its objective is "to increase awareness and demand for family planning
as well as identify outlets where family planning information and services
are available" (JHU/PCS, 1991). About one million pieces of materials such
as posters billboards, danglers, car stickers, indoor stickers and badges featuring
the logo were produced and distributed (Kiragu et al., 1993).
Determinants of Exposure to Media Campaigns and Interpersonal
Contacts
Figure 1 shows the percentages of the respondents who were exposed to the
three media campaigns considered in this study. The most recalled of the campaigns
was the PSA/logo. About 76 per cent claimed to have seen or listened to the
campaign. This figure compares quite closely with the 74 per cent exposure
reported from a sample survey conducted at the end of 1992 (Kiragu, et al.,
1993). About 51 per cent of our respondents watched or listened to the songs/music
videos campaign. An earlier study reported that 64 per cent of a sample of
urban residents reported being exposed to the campaign about five months after
the launching (JHU/PCS, 1990). The Yoruba drama video ("Eni A Wi Fun") was
watched by only 36.8 per cent of the respondents.
Some of the differences between the exposure figures for the campaigns can
be explained by the recency and pervasiveness of the campaigns. More recently
aired and/or more frequently aired campaigns were more likely to be remembered
and reported than those that were broadcast earlier or less frequently. The
PSA/logo was the most recently and perhaps the most frequently aired of the
campaigns. On the other hand, the Yoruba drama video was the least aired and
the most limited in terms of its coverage.
An examination of the results suggests a strong cumulative association between
exposure to the three campaigns. Almost every respondent who reported being
exposed to "Eni A Wi Fun" was also exposed to the "songs/music video" and the
PSA/logo. Similarly, most of those who were not exposed to "Eni A Wi Fun" but
had seen or heard the songs/music videos had also seen or heard the PSA/logo
campaign. Therefore, we created a cumulative scale of exposure to multi-media
campaigns using the Gutman's cumulative scale approach (see Gutman, 1950; Westoff
and Rodríguez, 1993). Table 1 shows the distribution of the cumulative
scale. It indicates the order of the pervasiveness of the campaigns in terms
of the number of the campaigns to which each respondent was exposed.
About 18 per cent of the respondents didn't recall having seen or listened
to any of the three campaigns. Twenty-five percent had seen or listened to
the PSA/logo while 31 per cent had been exposed to both the PSA/logo and the
songs/music videos. Only 25.5 per cent recalled to have seen or listened to
the three campaigns. About 42 per cent of those who were exposed to the campaigns
recalled having talked about at least one of them with other people, particularly
spouses, friends, relatives and health workers.
To better understand the dynamics of the exposure to and discussion of these
campaigns, we examined the extent to which the exposure and the discussion
of the campaigns varied by socio-economic and demographic and demographic characteristics
of the respondents. First, we used the ordered logit regression model to examine
the correlates of exposure to the campaigns. Then, among those who were exposed
to at least one campaign, we used the logit regression model to identify the
background variables that are related to interpersonal discussion of the campaigns.
Figure 2 presents the effects of the socio-economic and demographic variables
on exposure to media campaign about family planning. The number of living children,
education, the frequency of listening to the radio and the frequency of watching
television were significant predictors of exposure to the media campaigns.
The odds of being exposed to the campaigns increases with the number of living
children up to the sixth child and then declined as the number of living children
increased. While this pattern of effects is similar to earlier findings in
Kenya (Westoff and Rodríguez, 1993) and Nigeria (Westoff et al., 1994)
the negative portion of the relationship remains puzzling. One would expect
the number of living children to be consistently positively related to exposure
to media campaigns. It may be the case that women with very large families
are less attracted or sympathetic to the ideas in such messages, or have less
time or opportunity to watch television or listen to radio.
Education exerted a very strong positive impact on exposure to media campaigns.
For instance, the odds of being exposed to the PSA/logo campaign (or any of
the other campaigns) for a woman with a secondary or higher education were
3.5 times as high as for a woman with no education. As one would expect, women
who listened to the radio or watched television every day were more likely
to have seen or heard one of the media campaigns about family planning. These
effects are strongest for television viewers.
Figure 3 shows the effects of the background variables on odds of discussing
at least one of the media campaigns with other people, for those who were exposed
to the campaigns. The most important determinant of interpersonal discussion
of the campaigns was education. Compared to no education, having a primary
education was associated with an 85 per cent increase in the odds of discussing
a campaign while a secondary or more education increased the odds of discussing
a campaign by 136 per cent. Net of the effects of the other variables, the
age of the woman also determined whether or not she talked about a campaign.
Younger women were more likely to discuss a campaign that they had heard or
seen than were older woman. Women in polygynous marriages also tended to be
more disposed to discussing media campaigns about family planning. Because
a polygynously married woman and her children compete with the other wives
and their children for the attention and the resources of the husband, she
may be more interested in family planning programmes than a counterpart in
a monogamous union. The presence of another wife could also provide opportunities
for a polygynously married woman to discuss information about family planning
with her co-wife.
The frequency of listening to the radio also exerted a significant impact
on the odds of discussing the media campaigns with others. Women who listened
to the radio every day were two times as likely to discuss a campaign with
other people as those who listened to the radio less than once a week. Television
viewing also shows a similar pattern of effects, but the relationship is not
significant. It may be that when a woman hears a media campaign about family
planning frequently on the radio, the absence of the visual component of the
campaign tends to increase her desire to discuss the programme with other people
in order to seek clarification or more information about family planning. The
number of living children showed a positive association with the odds of discussing
a campaign, but the effects were not statistically significant.
Media Campaigns and Interpersonal Contacts on Contraceptive Behaviour
The analysis of the relationships between exposure to and discussion of media
campaigns and the contraceptive behaviour of the respondents was done in two
stages. First, we used logit regression models to examine the effects of exposure
to the campaigns on contraceptive use and intention to use in the future. The
major explanatory variable of interest here is the cumulative scale of campaign
exposure, represented in the models by three dummy variables. Second, for women
who were exposed to at least one campaign, we examined the impact of interpersonal
discussion of the campaign(s) on contraceptive use and intention. Interpersonal
discussion is defined as a dummy variable where a respondent is given a value
of 1 if she discussed a campaign with other people, and O otherwise. The results
of the regression models are been summarized in Tables 2 and 3.
The results of the relationship between exposure to media campaigns and current
use of modern contraceptives is presented in Panel 1 of Table 2 and Figure
4. The results indicate that being exposed to the campaigns was significantly
associated with current contraceptive behaviour net of the effects of other
variables. The proportion currently using a modern method among the women who
were exposed to the PSA/logo alone was 11.5 per cent higher than that of the
women who were not exposed to any of the campaigns. This difference increased
to 28 per cent for those who were exposed to the three campaigns. The effects
of discussing a campaign with others on current use of contraceptives are shown
in Panel 1 of Table 3 and Figure 4. After controlling for other variables,
close to 30 per cent of the women who were exposed to a campaign and talked
about it with other people were current users of modern methods compared to
21 per cent of those who were exposed but did not discuss a campaign with others.
In Table 2 (Panel 2) and Figure 5, we present the effects of exposure to the
media campaigns on intention to use a method in the future. Women who were
exposed to a media campaign about family planning were more likely to intend
to use a method sometime in the future than those who were not exposed. Net
of the effects of other variables, 32 per cent of the women who were exposed
to the PSA/logo intended to use a method compared to about 24 per cent of those
who were not exposed to the campaigns. Being exposed to the three campaigns
only modestly increases the proportion of exposed women who intended to use
a method to 34 per cent. This suggests that exposure to the PSA/logo alone
produced most of the observed positive attitude towards future use of contraception.
Respondents who could not make up their minds to use or not to use a method
in the future were not systematically different by exposure to the media campaigns.
Only those who were exposed to both the PSA/logo and songs/music videos were
more undecided than those who were not exposed to any of the campaigns. It
is not clear what components of the two campaigns made their audiences tend
to be more undecided than to be decided not to use a method in the future.
Perhaps the joint influence of the two campaigns on a woman who otherwise would
not have been interested in contraception was to prompt her to be more open
and to desire more information or clarifications before making up her mind
to use or not to use.
Table 3 (Panel 2) and Figure 5 present the results of the relationship between
discussing a campaign and intention to use a method in the future. Women who
were exposed to a campaign and discussed it with other people were more likely
to intend to use a method sometime in the future. After controlling for the
effects of other variables, 43.8 per cent of the women who were exposed to
and discussed a campaign with others intended to use a method compared to only
26.3 per cent of those who were exposed but discussed no campaign with anyone.
In effect, interpersonal discussion tended to help a woman decide to use a
method in the future rather than to decide against future use. On the other
hand, being undecided about future use of contraception was not significantly
associated with interpersonal discussion of the campaigns. The slightly lower
proportion undecided among the women who discussed a campaign with others suggests,
if anything, that discussing a campaign may help a woman to decide against
using contraception in the future instead of being undecided.
Conclusion
Evidence from this study suggests that quite a substantial proportion of the
people in the southwestern Nigeria are exposed to mass media campaigns about
family planning. Exposure to media campaigns tends to be associated with the
number of living children, education and the frequency of listening to the
radio or watching television. Furthermore, people do not just keep the information
they received from the campaigns to themselves. Rather, there is some sharing
of such information among them. Age, education, type of marriage and the frequency
of listening to the radio are important determinants of the odds of discussing
media campaigns with other people.
The main question asked in this study is whether the sharing of information
from mass media campaigns about family planning tends to enhances or attenuates
the association between exposure to media messages and contraceptive behaviour.
Because of the cross-sectional nature of our data, our results cannot be strictly
interpreted to imply causality. What we have established are the direction
and magnitude of association between the variables. Our findings indicate that
exposure to media campaigns about family planning has a strong positive association
with contraceptive behaviour. It is conceivable that being exposed to media
messages about family planning helps to initiate contraceptive adoption as
well as to assure contraceptive continuation. The results also show that being
exposed to more than one campaign may have cumulative effects on contraceptive
behaviour. In addition to the positive association between exposure to the
campaigns, talking about the campaigns to other people may help to promote
the objectives of the media messages. It seems that women who discuss the campaigns
with other people tend to receive additional motivation to practise or to intend
to practise family planning.
While it is reassuring that interpersonal discussion tends to reinforce rather
than attenuate the association between exposure to media messages and contraceptive
behaviour, further research is necessary to better understand the process by
which this occurs. For instance, we said earlier that the effects of interpersonal
discussion may depend on who a woman discussed the campaign(s) with. It is
also conceivable that a woman will be selective of who she discusses family
planning information with. If she becomes disposed to using contraception after
being exposed to a family planning message, she is more likely to discuss with
someone who she believes will be supportive of the idea, such as a friend rather
than a spouse or relative. We were unable to examine these issues in the present
paper because we have no information on who our respondents said that they
discussed the messages with. Meanwhile, it is desirable that a mass media campaign
should include well planned interpersonal contacts in order to ensure that
the audience of the campaign who may need further clarifications or have some
questions to be answered seek such information from people who will give them
the correct responses. In the absence of this, many individuals will be forced
to base their decisions on whatever information they can get, even if it is
from uninformed sources.
Table 1:Cummulative Scale of Exposure to Multi-Media Campaigns
Score |
Media Campaign* |
Number |
Percent |
0 |
No campaign reported |
142 |
18.4 |
1 |
PSA/logo only |
193 |
25.1 |
2 |
PSA/logo and Songs/Music Videos |
239 |
31.0 |
3 |
All three campaigns including TBF |
196 |
25.5 |
Total |
|
770 |
100.0 |
* TBF refers to "Eni A Wi Fun" (To Be Forewarned).
Table 2:Effects of Exposure to Multi-media Campaigns on Contraceptive Behavior
Reproductive Behavior/Intention |
|
Exposure to Multi-media Campaigns |
|
|
None |
PSA/
Logo |
+Songs/
M.V |
+TBF |
All |
Chi-sp
or F |
df |
Ever-use of Contraception
% used modern method |
N
Ubadj.
Adj |
142
12.2
16.9 |
193
31.0
32.1 |
239
41.9
38.0 |
196
54.4
52.6 |
770
34.4
34.4 |
91.6
42.2 |
3
3 |
Current Use of Contraception
% using of modern method |
N
Unadj.
Adj |
133
5.5
8.2 |
181
18.9
19.7 |
222
23.3
21.0 |
198
37.4
36.6 |
720
20.8
20.8 |
63.0
32.2 |
3
3 |
Intention to Use Contraception
% intends to use in future
% not sure of intention
|
N
Unadj.
Adj.
Unadj.
Adj. |
134
23.8
25.2
18.7
18.4 |
156
32.3
32.4
20.5
20.2 |
173
34.2
33.2
27.7
28.2 |
112
36.0
34.5
20.0
19.9 |
575
30.6
30.6
21.7
21.7 |
15.5
9.9
15.5
9.9 |
6
6
6
6 |
The adjusted percentages for current use of contraception are derived from
the results of a logit regression model, while the ones for intention to use
contraception in the future are based on the results of a multinomial logit
regression model. In both cases we controlled for variables that may influence
the relationship. The figures have been scaled to reproduce exactly the sample
total.
Table 3:Effects of Interpersonal Discussion of Multi-Media Campaign on
Contraceptive Behavior
Contraceptive
Behavior/Intention |
|
Talk about the Multi-Media Campaigns |
No |
Yes |
All |
Chi-sp or F |
df |
Ever-use of FP Method
% used modern method
|
N
Ubadj.
Adj |
336
34.0
34.9 |
251
48.3
47.1 |
628
40.0
40.0 |
13.0
8.2 |
1
1 |
Current Use of FP Method
% using modern among users
|
N
Unadj.
Adj |
336
20.8
21.2 |
251
30.3
29.8 |
587
24.9
24.9 |
6.8
4.9 |
1
1 |
Intention to Use FP Method
% intends to use in future
% not sure of intention
|
N
Unadj.
Adj.
Unadj.
Adj. |
276
25.0
26.3
27.2
25.4 |
265
46.1
43.8
18.8
21.6 |
441
32.9
32.9
24.0
24.0 |
20.5
15.3
20.5
15.3 |
2
2
2
2 |
The adjusted percentages for current use of contraception are derived from
the results of a logit regression model, while the ones for intention to use
contraception in the future are based on the results of a multinomial logit
regression model. In both cases, we controlled for variables that may influence
the relationship. The figures have been scaled to reproduced exactly the sample
total.
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